Friday, 10 September 2010

(Insurgent / RCN / Terra) - Police noticed the murder of three gay men in the Colombian city of Cucuta, capital of Norte de Santander department. Colonel Jorge Ivan Florez, police commander in Cucuta, has stated that the three men were killed in a street in the heart of the city. According to the officer, "could deal with a wrongly called" social cleansing campaign "since in the past few days have circulated leaflets in the city" in which strangers threaten thieves, drug dealers and sex workers. "

In addition, unknown have killed four men in a barn in the town of Caldas, northwestern Colombia. Their bodies, which have several gun shots were discovered in rural Chuscales, near Caldas, Medellin neighboring town.

According to the secretary of government of Caldas, Rodrigo Montoya, the authorities checked versions according to which the four men were taken to that place to be killed. The dead were identified as Eli Anderson Gomez Camargo Emerson and one child age 17. Minutes later, police captured a 26 year old man who allegedly would be one of the assailants.

According to authorities, during the weekend were killed between 7-10 people in different events in the Metropolitan Area of Cúcuta.

Ask LGBT investigate two murders in Medellin
The Personality of Medellin and social organizations of human rights in Medellin claim effective results in the investigation of hate crimes being committed against LGBT people in Medellin, where in recent days was murdered a couple of women in this population.

In the Santa Cruz, lower northeast Medellín, were shot to death women Carmenza Janet Amaya, 35, and her partner Maria Elena Murillo Caicedo, 26, two recognized leaders in the community and the general public LGBT in Medellin.

According to the Personality of Medellin, the investigations conducted by the prosecution in the multiple complaints of hate crimes in this city, have made minimal results to clarify them, and called for greater efficacy in these lawsuits.

The Representative Jairo Vargas Herran told Caracol Radio that it is "homicides that remain unsolved, which over the years go forgotten because there is no one methodology that allows you to solve them, except in exceptional cases."

Human rights activists and LGBT people in Medellin also asked the prosecutor to try the most to clarify the deaths of several people from that community, and in particular to clarify whether the death of two women in the northeastern of the city due to community activities or their sexual preference and life.

Anyway, in both cases, serious people away to be murdered urban conflicts and are working for the community, said one of the activists consulted.